Non-fiction comics

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 29. Chapters: Autobiographical comics, Non-fiction graphic novels, Barefoot Gen, A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge, Maus, American Splendor, 9-11, Safe Area Gorazde, For Beginners, LLC, The Cartoon History of the Universe, A People's History of American Empire, Evita, vida y obra de Eva Perón, Action Philosophers!, Larry Gonick, Brought to Light, Rocky, Palestine, Laika, Understanding Comics, Ernie Colón, Addicted to War, Sid Jacobson, American Elf, Hill & Wang, Ethel and Ernest, Fortune and Glory, Chicken with Plums, Jim, Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography, Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary, Reinventing Comics, Tales from the Heart, Sarajevo Tango, Introducing Kafka, Fax from Sarajevo, Peepshow, The Fixer, Notes from a Defeatist. Excerpt: Barefoot Gen Hadashi no Gen) is a Japanese manga series by Keiji Nakazawa. Loosely based on Nakazawa's own experiences as a Hiroshima survivor, the series begins in 1945 in and around Hiroshima, Japan, where the six-year-old boy Gen lives with his family. After Hiroshima is destroyed by atomic bombing, Gen and other survivors are left to deal with the aftermath. Barefoot Gen ran in several magazines, including Weekly Shonen Jump, from 1973 to 1985. It was subsequently adapted into three live action film adaptations directed by Tengo Yamada, which were released between 1976 and 1980. Madhouse released two anime films, one in 1983 and one in 1986. In 2007, a live action television drama series adaptation aired in Japan on Fuji TV over two nights, August 10 and 11. The story begins on August 4, 1945, in Hiroshima with the everyday life of Gen, his younger brother Shinji, their father Daikichi, elder sister Eiko, and pregnant mother Kimie, during the final days of World War II. The beginning of the plot mainly focuses on the Nakaoka family's struggle to afford food ration cards and other items due to food shortages throughout Japan. Like the other residents, the family wonders why Hiroshima has so far suffered only minor damage; when American B-29 Superfortress bombers have fire-bombed nearly all of Japan's major cities. Gen and Shinji try and help their family by working tirelessly in the family's wheat field, or attempting to find food to feed their pregnant mother Kimie, who has grown ill from malnutrition. On the night of August 5, the family is awakened by an air raid and take refuge in their bomb shelter, though, after some time, it is clear this is yet another false alarm. During the ordeal, Gen's father Daikichi states his fears concerning the constant passing of enemy aircraft with no following attack and his suspicion that Hiroshima is being saved for something special. The next morning, Gen presents a wooden battleship he has gotten from a merchant who, after